Gender Strategy and Action Plan for Bac Kan Project, Vietnam

Recognizing the need of gender awareness in IFAD projects and committed to promote IFAD’s new gender policy, APMAS-GSM had proposed a novel approach to build the in-house capacity of project staffs on gender mainstreaming. In this approach APMAS-GSM proposed to provide hands-on support to the projects to strengthen the gender related components of IFAD projects.

The hands-on support consisted on-the-job-coaching by a gender expert and advice on integrating gender sensitivity within the project components. Bac Kan project availed this offer by APMAS-GSM and one gender expert was appointed to work with the project to provide support on developing project’s gender strategy, project’s gender action plan, and project’s gender sensitive logical framework. The project staff also underwent a gender mainstreaming awareness training at the project site.